The following names are taken from about 120 sheets of paper, each paper
containing a name with that person's recorded dues payments 1964-66.

From the 1950's and on, Landsmanshaften lost membership and purpose. The need
for cemetery plots, social services, relief to brethren in Belarus as well as
speaking Yiddish and sharing memories of the old country no longer provided the
basis for a cohesive organization. Many of these landsmanshaften dissolved and
donated their papers and records to YIVO. Had they known that Jewishgen would
forward some of their purposes with its emphasis on history and genealogy the
landsmanshaften might have evolved and merged into Jewishgen and donated to us
their membership lists and genealogy. I could not find membership lists in the
YIVO records. Names were gleaned from stationery listings of officers and from
donation boxes found in celebratory publications which were used to provide for
the cost of the publication.

Jerry Seligsohn
NYC

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